A relative clause example from a web site teaching English
Hello everyone,
As you can see on the title, I have a sentence from a web site teaching English.
The website says:
"" Sometimes, we can not use relative clauses just after the word. Because there may be some different words defining the word which we want to give an extra information about.
Example: There is someone at the door.
You can not say: "There is someone who wants to see you at the door"
You must say: "There is someone at the door who wants to see you."
Because, "at the door" and "someone" are together, you can not separate them. ""
Well, my question is why this teacher thinks like that?(By the way, this teacher is not a native speaker and learned English after a long time)
I think, "at the door" and "someone" must not be together. Let's ask the main verb. "Where is there someone?"
It says: "At the door". So, "At the door" functions as an adverb of place. Not a phrase defining "someone".
Finally,
According to me, "at the door" doesn't belong to "someone". Gramatically, the best option is the first one, not second I think.
Top answer
Jawel "There is someone who wants to see you at the door" This can be understood in two ways: 1. e. it describes where this person is located 2.
- Jawel "There is someone who wants to see you at the door" This can be understood in two ways: 1.
- e.
- it describes where this person is located 2.
- e.
- it describes where this person wants to see you (1) is the expected meaning.
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Jawel"There is someone who wants to see you at the door"
This can be understood in two ways:
1. "at the door" modifies "someone", i.e. it describes where this person is located
2. "at the door" modifies "see you", i.e. it describes where this person wants to see you
(1) is the expected meaning. Most often we would assume that this is what wa
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